Nominet again sends punters pushy emails to pay up
Found on The Register on Wednesday, 09 September 2020
Nominet is fully aware that the .uk names it is pushing were never ordered by people in the first place. When dot-uk was opened up several years ago so that you could register things like mycompany.uk as well as mycompany.co.uk, domain registrars had a brainwave: if a customer owned, say, blablahblah.co.uk, blablahblah.uk would be registered automatically for them. Now those freebie domains are expiring, and no one's renewing them – because people didn't want them in the first place, hence this latest pressure campaign.
The idea itself sounds pretty shady. You can't just give a product to someone and have him pay for it.